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- Contributor(s)
- Suzanne Freyjadis; Katrin Becker
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- In recent years, the video game industry has been embroiled in in various issues of gender bias and minority representation, both in the games that are published and among those who work in the industry. The GamerGate controversy, which exploded on social networks in August 2014, was ostensibly about nepotism and a lack of reporting integrity in videogame journalism but very quickly descended into unprecedented harassment and threats that primarily targeted women in the game industry. This is an extreme example of the issues faced by many women and minorities in the STEM professions, and the barriers that these situations create. How does game education plan to dig itself out of the...
- Type
- presentations (communicative events)
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology